blintzing

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by blintzing 7y ago
If the device doesn't have a secure element, how can anyone take it seriously as a strong root of trust? The page lists several recent attacks on secure element, but that's not really enough to convince me that no secure element i
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by blintzing 8y ago
There’s a nice Stanford class I took called CS 140E that had students write an OS for the Raspeberry Pi in Rust. There are actually some benefits to using Rust at this level, though it can be a bit cumbersome at times. Check it out here: h
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by blintzing 11y ago
Another great startup/app development Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strip/2011-02-12
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by blintzing 11y ago
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ CSS-Tricks has a pretty handy guide, too. If I need a quick reference when developing, that and MDN are my go to.
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by blintzing 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A3sd The Latin librae, solidi, and denarii became pounds, shillings and pence. There are 12 pence in a shilling, and 20 shillings in a pound. So, "£6 30s 4d" is (6)+(30/
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by blintzing 11y ago
A big thing Julia has going for it is that it plays nicely with Fortran. Lots of legacy numerical computing code has already been written in Fortran, so it's a big draw for some companies.
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by blintzing 11y ago
If I write a computer program (say a Processing sketch) that generates an image, who owns the copyright to the image?
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by blintzing 11y ago
How many grandmas (or even casual Google users) knew that though? Do they read Google's blog? (Also, not to be picky, but I see no mention of Google+ Photos (let alone its status as "deprecated legacy") on the announcement bl
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by blintzing 11y ago
Isn't it funny that we're even having this conversation? That Google can offer two products, differentiated by a single character (Google+ Photos and Google Photos), with few obvious indicators as to which I should use? It's
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by blintzing 11y ago
> Stuff like prime numbers have eaten up millions of brain hours of highly intelligent people I think the idea that brilliant minds have been 'wasted' on prime numbers is nonsense. Don't 'highly intelligent people&#x2
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by blintzing 11y ago
But sometimes the connection between "beautiful art project" and "practical tools" is totally unexpected. We often invest time in projects that seem simply like "beautiful art", and then much later stumble upon
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by blintzing 11y ago
I was very interested, but pretty disappointed that Datomic is completely closed source. Maybe this is a little mean, but what could be more "simple" than being able to read, understand, and modify the database you rely on? Neo4j,
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by blintzing 11y ago
Is he perhaps joking? Even a brief read of the Wikipedia article makes it clear that NP-hard isn't a mathematical expression in which 'N' stands for a number...
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by blintzing 11y ago
How is what the author described "one pronounced incident"? One email or IRC message could be a "pronounced incident". What she describes is clearly much worse, and points to a deep problem - not an one-off "inciden